Army & Navy - MORALE: Scarlet Scourge

The patience of Army postal officers was at
an end. They issued a stern edict: after St. Valentine's Day, imprints
of lipstick will no longer be tolerated on Vmail.

Explained Major Kenneth H. Donnelly, postal officer of the Sixth Service
Command: lipstick smears when it passes through V-mail photographic
equipment, ruins the letter that bears it, and others that follow. The
automatic feeder must be stopped and cleaned after every passing of
"the scourge."